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Subject: Re: [dita] Select attributes on conref'ed element


Michael is correct. The toolkit will pull attributes from the target
element, unless those same attributes are specified locally. So,
<p audience="localaud" conref="#topic/p"/>
<p audience="targetaud" id="p" platform="targetplat">.......</p>
will become
<p audience="localaud" platform="targetplat">.......</p>
<p audience="targetaud" id="p" platform="targetplat">.......</p>

There are only a couple of exceptions. First, we do not pull in the ID of
the target element. Second, if an attribute is required, it must be
specified on the first, referencing element. If that is the case, we will
not use it to override the target. So, for example, in this case:
<topichead navtitle="" conref="sample.ditamap#othertopichead"/>

the navtitle from the conref target will still be pulled in. If you look
for topichead in the conref.xsl file, you will see a list of all required
attributes that will not be saved by the conref processor.

Robert D Anderson
IBM Authoring Tools Development
Chief Architect, DITA Open Toolkit


                                                                           
             Michael Priestley                                             
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I believe the processor in the toolkit respects both sets of attributes,
but gives attributes on the referencing element a higher priority. This
should be in the spec but isn't.

Michael Priestley
IBM DITA Architect
SWG Classification Schema PDT Lead
mpriestl@ca.ibm.com

                                                                           
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If an element with a conref attribute has selection attributes, are those
to be respected by the conref processor? If the referenced element also has
selection attributes, are those to be respected by the publishing engine as
well?

 Paul Prescod




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